1st - €9,456.00 2nd - €3,200.00 3rd - €1,600.00 4th - €800.00 5th - €480.00 6th - €320.00 Overcast

FormscanBy Mark Nunan - Trainer Paddy Twomey’s stats for the season would keep the environmental activists happy, so few entries has he wasted with his select string of horses. SILK FOREST has had a lay-off since two good runs in April, but gets the vote to overcome that and break her maiden on her third career outing. Second to the subsequent listed-placed Titanium Sky in a course and distance maiden on debut, with subsequent Group 3 winner Hamariyna behind her in third, she was then a beaten favourite but lost little caste in defeat at Limerick when chasing home Dean Street Doll, fifth in the Irish 1,000 Guineas the following month, two places behind Twomey’s Foxtrot Liv. Zaamar ran well in third here in June on his debut, but needs to find more to win this, while Royal Highness has missed three engagements for various reasons since a never-nearer debut second at Tipperary. Mufarrej is a half-brother to stable companion Jassaar, twice a winner this term and now rated 91, while Merricourt’s mark of 76 gives him each-way claims from a good draw.%0A%0A

For three years old and upwards, maidens at starting that are EBF eligible
Weights - 3-y-o 9st 5lbs ;4-y-o and up 9st 11lbs ;Fillies allowed 5lbs ;